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The ghostly presence stands in for numerous other ""voices"" in a range of American films. In this synthesis of film and politics, Ray Pratt aims to show how such movies are deeply rooted in post-war American culture and continue to exert an enormous influence on the national imagination.

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Visionary Paranoia; Film Politics; The Dark Vision of Film Noir; The Culture of Resistance in the Films of the 1960s; ""You may think you know what's going on here""; Family Values? - The View from Reagan's Closet; ""She was bad news"" - Male Paranoia and Femme Fatales; Women and Sexual Paranoia; Bad Cops and their Politics; From Assassination to Surveillance Society.

Projecting Paranoia

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      Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780700611508, 978-0700611508
      ISBN10: 0700611509
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The ghostly presence stands in for numerous other ""voices"" in a range of American films. In this synthesis of film and politics, Ray Pratt aims to show how such movies are deeply rooted in post-war American culture and continue to exert an enormous influence on the national imagination.

      Table of Contents
      Visionary Paranoia; Film Politics; The Dark Vision of Film Noir; The Culture of Resistance in the Films of the 1960s; ""You may think you know what's going on here""; Family Values? - The View from Reagan's Closet; ""She was bad news"" - Male Paranoia and Femme Fatales; Women and Sexual Paranoia; Bad Cops and their Politics; From Assassination to Surveillance Society.

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